We succeeded in fabrication of a free accessible microchannel using an air-liquid interface. To pattern the air-liquid interface in the microfluidic chip, we utilized nano-geometric surface which encloses micropatterned massive nanopillars to enhance the wettability of the surface, which was fabricated by using the hybrid mask lithography technique. Novelties of this paper are shown as follows....

Fast solute mixing can be achieved in a microchannel by rapid unidirectional displacement of a discrete liquid drop. The recirculation streamlines created within the liquid during the drop’s motion cause the solute to interlayer across the channel depth, provided the interlayer diffusion of the solute is small. Uniform interlayering appears when the drop is displaced by more than three drop len...

This paper presents a novel dielectrophoresis-based microfluidic device incorporating round hurdles within an S-shaped microchannel for continuous manipulation and separation of microparticles. Local nonuniform electric fields are generated due to the combined effects of obstacle and curvature, which in turn induce negative dielectrophoresis forces exerting on the particle that transport throug...

Microchannel plates are an important component in a type of imaging diagnostic known as an x-ray framing camera, used in x-ray radiography of high-energy-density physics experiments. A microchannel plate is responsible for detecting x rays and then converting them into amplified bursts of electrons, which are then imaged onto a phosphor-coated fiber optic screen. We present the preliminary deve...

This work aims to obtain the capacitance resulted from the coplanar electrode configuration meant to be used for underwater sensing application. Coplanar structure is proposed to overcome the complexity of parallel electrode microfabrication processes which require repeating process of layer deposition. Work is achieved through Finite Element Model (FEM) using ANSYS 12.1 and the result is compa...

A new algorithm namely, fuzzy zero point method is proposed for finding a fuzzy optimal solution for a fuzzy transportation problem where the transportation cost, supply and demand are trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The optimal solution for the fuzzy transportation problem by the fuzzy zero point method is a trapezoidal fuzzy number. The solution procedure is illustrated with numerical example. Mat...

In this paper, we want represented a method for ranking of two exponential trapezoidal fuzzy numbers with TRD distance. The main advantage of the proposed approach is that the proposed approach provide the correct ordering of exponential trapezoidal fuzzy numbers and also the proposed approach is very simple and easy to apply in the real life problems.

We propose a novel SAS macro to utilize PROC NLMIXED in SAS to estimate the standard error for AUC when the AUC estimator is based on the trapezoidal rule. Our method accounts for the trapezoidal region-by-region correlation structure. An example is provided for the standard error of the AUC under the ROC curve.

In the current presentation, we suggest a very simple and effective post-processing procedure to increase the order of accuracy in time for numerical results obtained at time integration of linear elastodynamics problems by the trapezoidal rule. This technique is based on a new exact, closed-form, a-priori error estimator for time integration of linear elastodynamics equations by the trapezoida...